Trivia 7-16-18 assasination plot

[Mike Serpa]

According to the rules of presidential succession in 1865, only Vice President Johnson, and not Seward or Grant, was in line to replace Lincoln if he died. If Johnson had died, an acting president would be appointed until a special election could be held to elect a new president (and not a vice president).

The acting president would have been the president pro tempore of the Senate, Lafayette Sabine Foster of Connecticut.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-forgotten-man-who-almost-became-president-after-lincoln

 

[Ole Miss]

The acting president would have been the president pro tempore of the Senate, Lafayette Sabine Foster of Connecticut.
Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax would have been next, and last, in line to succeed Lincoln and Johnson if Foster could not serve.
Regards
David

 

[Si Klegg]

Lafayette S. Foster.

Edit - Correct, Si Klegg. Welcome to CivilWarTalk and to the trivia game.

The game is just about to go on hiatus for the rest of July, but I hope you'll come back and play again when it resumes in August.

hoosier

 

[roberts]

LaFayette Sabine Foster

 

[JOHN42768]

Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax Jr.

 

[ErnieMac]

Speaker of the House of Representatives Schuyler Colfax

 

[kholland]

Under the Presidential Succession Act of 1792 it would have been the president pro tempore of the Senate, Lafayette Sabine Foster of Connecticut. Truly a trivial name for a lot of us.

 

[hoosier]

This looks like a tricky one.

Nowadays, if the offices of President and Vice President should both become vacant, the Speaker of the House would succeed to the presidency. In 1865, that would have been Schuyler Colfax.

However, that order of succession wasn't established until 1947. According to the Presidential Succession Act of 1792, which, as far as I can determine, was still in effect by 1865, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate was in line ahead of the Speaker of the House.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_presidential_line_of_succession&oldid=850106935

Therefore, my answer is Sen. Lafayette Foster of Connecticut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lafayette_S._Foster&oldid=840153255

 

[Study the Past]

Lafayette S. Foster, Senator from Connecticut & president pro tem of the Senate.

 

[Florida Lee]

Benjamin Wade

Edit - Wade became President Pro Tempore of the Senate in 1867. He would have succeeded to the presidency in 1868 if Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial had resulted in his removal from office at that time, but he would not have done so in 1865 if Johnson had been assassinated in that year.

hoosier

 

[sarladaise]

Lafayette Sabine Foster, a Connecticut Republican, President pro tempore of the Senate, would have been
appointed as acting president, until a special election could be held to elect a new president (no VP).

 

[HarlechMan]

Lafayette Sabine Foster
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-forgotten-man-who-almost-became-president-after-lincoln

 

[Zella]

The man in question was President Pro Tempore of the Senate: Lafayette Sabine Foster. He would have been acting president before a new president was elected later that year.

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-forgotten-man-who-almost-became-president-after-lincoln

 

[FarawayFriend]

That would have been Senator Lafayette Sabine Foster

"According to the rules of presidential succession in 1865, only Vice President Johnson, and not Seward or Grant, was in line to replace Lincoln if he died. If Johnson had died, an acting president would be appointed until a special election could be held to elect a new president (and not a vice president).
The acting president would have been the president pro tempore of the Senate, Lafayette Sabine Foster of Connecticut."

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-forgotten-man-who-almost-became-president-after-lincoln

 

[lelliott19]

If Johnson had died, an acting president would be appointed until a special election could be held to elect a new president (and not a vice president). The acting president would have been the president pro tempore of the Senate, Lafayette Sabine Foster of Connecticut. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-forgotten-man-who-almost-became-president-after-lincoln

 

[BlueNGrey]

Lafayette Sabine Foster

constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-forgotten-man-who-almost-became-president-after-lincoln

 

[amweiner]

Lafayette Sabine Foster (November 22, 1806 – September 19, 1880), President pro tempore of the Senate, would have served as Acting President.

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-forgotten-man-who-almost-became-president-after-lincoln

 

[ami]

Answer: The President pro tempore of the Senate. At that time, Sen. Lafayette S. Foster of Connecticut
Wikipedia, "Presidential Succession Act"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/forgotten-man-almost-became-president-lincoln-101033224.html